Belfast Live reports on the plans by the lobby group ‘Into the West’ that has published a proposal which would connect Derry with Portadown, via stations in Strabane, Omagh and Dungannon in Northern Ireland.
image: Into the West website
… stations and rail lines….were stripped away in the 1950s and 1960s…
Belfast Live writes:
Lobby group ‘Into the West’ has launched the campaign and will be hosting meetings in Omagh, Derry, Strabane and Dungannon throughout November ahead of the publication of a cross-border rail review.
The stations and rail lines which connected the west were stripped away in the 1950s and 1960s, with Co Tyrone and Co Fermanagh left without a functioning train station….
The lobby group has published a proposal for the ‘North West Rail Corridor’, which would connect Derry with Portadown, via stations in Strabane, Omagh and Dungannon. It also includes a connection with Letterkenny in Co Donegal.
The group says the line would serve as a ‘foundation stone’ for bringing rail back to Co Fermanagh…
The results of the all-island strategic rail review announced by infrastructure departments in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland were due to be published this year….
….Into the West chair Steve Bradley says they want to make the issue a priority for elected representatives and the public in the coming months.
“We wanted to get our case in early to say this should be the number one rail priority on the island of Ireland. No other opening would connect so many counties and key towns,”…
